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" Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. "
The Vision, Or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise - Page 54
by Dante Alighieri - 1858 - 587 pages
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant inlerlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 20

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 798 pages
...infamy seeks fame ; Therefore eternal silence be their doom. U. The sun to me is dark, And .-¡It ni as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. U. This new created world, whereof in hell Fame is not tilcnt. H. Thui could not the mouths of worthy...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 12

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 856 pages
...INTERI.U'NARY, adj. > Belonging to the time when the moon, about the change, is invisible The sun to me is dark. B 7ܚ ?<cʡsEy P0 GE / ] d W Z x \L_ ܡ K D$ q` <z N n "Dd X iiiterluitar cave. Milton. We add the two Egyptian days in every month, the interlunary and plemlunary...
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The Vision : Or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri, Volume 1

Dante Alighieri - 1831 - 366 pages
...leopard shall watch over their cities." 1) Where the sun in silence rests.] The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Milton. Sa. Ago. The same metaphor will recur, Canto v. verse 29. Into a place I came Where light was silent...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? 85 The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, 90 And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...light, and light was over all ;' Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? 85 The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, 90 And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the...
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The Poetry of Life, Volume 1

Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 358 pages
...till it smiled." " Midnight shout and revelry, " Tipsy dance and jollity." " The sun to me is dark " And silent as the moon, " When she deserts the night,..." Hid in her vacant interlunar cave." — MILTON. The measure of the following two lines is remarkably descriptive of the tardy leave-taking of our first...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 5

1836 - 428 pages
...light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree 7 85 The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, 90 And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the...
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Lectures on English Poetry: To the Time of Milton

Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 136 pages
...be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary ia to life, And almost life itself, if it be true' That light is in the soul,...
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The Sanctuary and the Oratory: Or, Illustrations and Records of Devotional Duty

Thomas Milner - 1837 - 426 pages
...be light, and light was over all,' Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunarcave." Contemplating, then, in the morning's dawn, the hills, the vales, the woods, the streams,...
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